4 changes that heartbreak usually leaves in your brain

Love is one of the most intense emotions that human beings can experience, so much that it is capable of giving us the most sublime happiness to the most absolute devastation, that which, sometimes, Add in depressions and that closes, in more extreme cases, our spirits for interacting with the world.

Now, can heartbreak vary in some way the neurochemistry of our brain? Of course, and so intensely that it will make us emerge stronger or not from this grieving process that we have all lived or will live, surely, sometime.

Heartbreak hurts , there is no doubt, but the way in which we each face it in our day to day will make us leave before that complex process internally.And during that time, our brain will undergo various changes.

We explain them to you.

The danger of disappointment

After a break, after a separation, it is common for this sensation to appear ion: the disappointment.We are not disappointed to have sounded a certain type of future and find others.We are disappointed because the person was not as we expected or because the circumstances did not fit our plans.

4 changes that heartbreak usually leaves in your brain

Now...Is disappointment reflected in our brain in any way? That's right, and it's a fascinating aspect:

According to research conducted at the University of California, San Diego (USA), the exact part of the brain that controls the processing of Information associated with disappointment (as well as other negative emotions) is the lateral habenula.

Disappointment and the danger that this negative emotion derives from its most pronounced side (depression) is explained by an imbalance between two neurotransmitters: glutamate and GABA.

If day by day we face the situation with integrity and we avoid carrying the grudge or that infinite sadness, then this neurochemistry will vary and we will "balance" the function of the habenula.

Loss of pleasure

What do we mean by loss of pleasure? Basically, for a while we lose our illusion, our ability to be passionate about something, to enjoy the simplest things. We remain as lethargic.

Heartbreak implies having to spend a certain time "rebuilding" inside, spinning again our self-esteem and our ability to find again, the desire to open ourselves to the world.

4 changes that heartbreak usually leaves in your brain

The loss of pleasure is translated at the brain level, with an imbalance in norepinephrine and cortisol. Two hormones that appear when there is a decrease in oxytocin or dopamine, those neurotransmitters associated with the effusivity of falling in love, or the pleasure of happiness, of passion.

Possible lowering of self-esteem

It can happen.Always depending on the way we approach the rupture of that relationship will determine the present A type of increase or decrease in neurochemistry in our brain.There are those who feel anger, resentment...Sensations related to disappointment.

However, a very common and dangerous situation that many people experience is a lowering of self-esteem, especially if we are rejected or deceived.Hence, thoughts like: «There is something in me that always fails, I am not attractive enough, I am not good enough for him or her, this Of course I'm going to end up alone, that I don't know how to love, that I don't deserve to be loved...»

4 changes that heartbreak usually leaves in your brain

They are, as we say, very self-destructive thoughts and you have to know how to control.If we let ourselves go, the changes that our The brain will concentrate on the frontrostral area, with a marked decrease in activity in this area.

Research on where in our brain the «au toestima »are very recent and have been carried out at Dartmouth College in Hanover (United States), and have been published in the Social Cognitive and affective Neurosciencie magazine.

Yes to resilience

Resilience is that wonderful attitude we all have: that of knowing how to emerge strengthened from adversity, having acquired not only an apprenticeship, but also, we see ourselves more capable, more mature, knowing which paths to follow, which people agree to us more and also achieving good self-knowledge.

Resilience is working day by day, and we acquire it over time, especially after having left complicated situations such as heartbreak.If you wonder in what areas resilience is associated we will tell you that the subject It is very interesting, because there are many, many areas, in fact, is associated with resilience to lateral thinking, creative thinking, mature and outside of the logical processes or "cause-effect" thinking.

4 changes that heartbreak usually leaves in your brain

To conclude, despite the fact that we have all passed or will go through heartbreak, the way we overcome it will be a victory, and a struggle to regain the desire for living, and find the person who really fits us.

If you liked this article, also know how we can react to a betrayal by our couple.

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